Why do you want to eat chicken on Tanabata?

In order to express people's hope that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a happy family life every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, every family will kill a chicken on July 7, which means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on this night, and if there is no rooster to announce the dawn, they will never part.

Legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl only meet at the Magpie Bridge on Tanabata every year. When the cock broke dawn, they had to part. In ancient times, people sympathized with the cowherd and the weaver girl, and the custom of killing chickens on Tanabata was popular, praying that lovers would never be separated. Therefore, on Valentine's Day in China, eating chicken has become a traditional custom in many places.